Strategic Plan 2019-2024, Ensuring a Bright and Stimulating Future Focused on Learning, Knowledge-Sharing and Community-Building
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DISCOVER. INSPIRE. CHANGE. Winter 2020 Important dates November 15, 2019 Scholarship application period opens January 22, 2020 Final submission deadline for Scholarship competition Note: Universities may have their own internal deadlines to apply February 24-26, 2020 Interview period with the Application and Nomination Review Committee April 2020 Nominees are announced For more information, contact our Leadership Programs Team: 514-938-0001 [email protected] Visit the website to apply! 1980 Sherbrooke Street West, suite 600 Montréal, Quebec, Canada H3H 1E8 514-938-0001 [email protected] trudeaufoundation.ca DISCOVER. INSPIRE. CHANGE. Table of contents Who we are 2 Our themes and values 3 Inclusive Excellence and Engaged Leadership 5 Engaged Scholars making a difference 6 Our programs 9 Leadership curriculum - six key concepts 10 Scientific theme 15 Leadership program for Scholars 16 Fellowship program 18 Mentorship program 19 Selection process 20 1 A bright future ahead Over the Foundation’s 16-year history, we have proudly supported the doctoral work of 251 Scholars, the recruitment of 146 world-class Canadians as Mentors, and the appointment of 75 outstanding intellectual leaders as Fellows. The Board of Directors and the entire Foundation community can hold our heads high for the organization’s extraordinary history. During this time, Canada and the world have changed, academia has evolved, and the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation is poised to go in a bold new direction, to undergo renewal, and to innovate on its mission to better prepare the next generation of Scholars to succeed and lead in the world today. As the Foundation turns to the next five years, several of the strategies and activities outlined below have already begun in earnest. Notably, 2019 marked the beginning of a new programming model for Scholars, Fellows and Mentors as well as a renewed model for the Foundation to engage the wider public. While putting diversity front and centre, we are bringing the Foundation toward new horizons, with the introduction of the Institutes of Engaged Leadership built around a scientific theme important to Canadians and the world. Our team is proud to share the following Strategic Plan 2019-2024, ensuring a bright and stimulating future focused on learning, knowledge-sharing and community-building. PASCALE FOURNIER President and Chief Executive Officer Our history By the numbers The Foundation is an independent and non- Since its inception, the Foundation has contributed partisan charity established in 2001 as a living to the following: memorial to Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau. 251 Scholars In 2002, with the support of the House of Supporting some of the brightest minds in Canada Commons, the Government of Canada endowed and around the world the Foundation with the Advanced Research in 75 Fellows the Humanities and Human Sciences Fund. The Promoting the research and creativity of Canada’s Foundation also benefits from private donations. top intellectuals and academic mentors 146 Mentors Connecting eminent Canadians with Scholars 2 DISCOVER. INSPIRE. CHANGE. We empower scholars to have Human Rights Responsible meaningful impact and Dignity Citizenship in the world. Since its inception, the Foundation has recognized and valued academic excellence and leadership across industries and throughout Canada and the world. It enables knowledge creation and People and Canada and encourages sharing of rigorous academic knowledge their Natural the World in innovative and creative ways with the broader Environment public landscape. The Foundation is committed to diversity in many forms, including gender, race, disability, language, socioeconomic background, Indigenous knowledge and region of origin as well as diversity of perspectives. Values Community The Foundation’s community is made of leaders who explore, ask difficult questions, and discover new horizons. The Foundation’s new programming will empower participants to become Engaged Leaders, equipping Scholars with the tools to be courageous and creative leaders in their institutions and communities and to inspire innovative approaches as they blaze new trails in the social sciences and humanities. Accountability All organizations require a robust culture of accountability, particularly during a time of change and innovation. Change is disruptive by nature, and rallying staff, governors, community members and partners around innovation and an agenda of renewal requires trust. Creating that trust requires rigorous accountability and a respectful environment. For the Foundation, accountability means recognizing responsibility, taking risks and rewarding excellence. Impact The Foundation’s vision is to empower Scholars to have meaningful impact in the world. To deliver on this promise, the Foundation has long invested in innovative researchers who experiment and adapt in the fast- changing landscape and demonstrate an ability to work with those with a variety of perspectives and from different walks of life. 3 Great public educators and leaders begin here! 2019 cohort The Foundation is an international model for leadership training among academics. The Foundation bridges the gap between academic and applied knowledge through its innovative and impactful programming and its growing community of intellectuals and leaders. The Foundation is a catalyst for meaningful change, thanks to the following attributes: • We have a vibrant, enthusiastic network of Scholars, Fellows, Mentors and alumni • Our smart, caring community is diverse and reflects the country’s richness • Our prestigious Scholarships attract world-class researchers and helps empower them to have positive impact in the world 4 DISCOVER. INSPIRE. CHANGE. Inclusive Excellence and Engaged Leadership The Foundation seeks Scholars, Fellows and Mentors who are attuned to different forms of unconventional knowledge and eager to translate their expertise into lasting engagement with Canadian society and global communities. The Foundation’s vision will focus on fostering Inclusive Excellence and Engaged Leadership. Inclusive Excellence Engaged Leadership First coined in 2005 by the Association of Throughout 2018-2019, the Foundation undertook American Colleges & Universities (AAC&U) a listening and learning tour, the Future Forums, Inclusive Excellence was defined by using four which visited communities in every province primary elements: and territory. 1. A focus on student intellectual and social Throughout the Future Forums process and development; in discussion with members of our community, the Foundation has developed a vision for Engaged 2. A purposeful development and utilization or Leadership that may apply to leaders in the organizational resources to enhance student academic world and beyond. Engaged Leaders learning; are open, empathetic, collaborative, creative 3. Attention to the cultural differences learners and innovative. Through its Institutes of Engaged bring to the educational experience and that Leadership, the Foundation will equip Scholars, enhances the learning space; with the tools to be leaders in their institutions and communities. Instilling in them those values 4. A welcoming community that engages all of crucial for Engaged Leaders, our programs foster its diversity in the service of students and interest in and opportunity for inter-disciplinary organizational learning. collaboration, nurturing an openness to varied perspectives and Inclusive Excellence. Universities Canada also makes an explicit use of Inclusive Excellence as a driving concept for institutional change, with its public commitment to Seven Inclusive Excellence Principles in 2007. The Foundation recognizes that its future success depends on building a diverse community of Scholars, Fellows, Mentors, Directors and Members, staff, and alumni and must engage and value these different perspectives, experiences, and ways of knowing while maintaining the highest expectations of excellence in one’s respective field. 5 Diverse and distinguished Jarita Greyeyes Steve Vanloffeld “ I was drawn to the “ Having an opportunity Foundation because to collaborate with I wanted to join a such a diverse group community of scholars of gifted individuals who had diverse and to be mentored by identities, perspectives some of the brightest and experiences that informed their approach to people in their fields was a key driver behind research, teaching and community engagement. my decision to apply to the program. I know My work centers on the voices and contributions my work is richer and will have a greater impact of Indigenous women who have shaped and having listened to and learned from people contributed to Indigenization in their respective from different social, political, and academic institutions. This work involves considering backgrounds. Future scholars who follow the many perspectives and is fundamentally about new path being forged by the Foundation, can reframing whose knowledge is valued. ” also greatly benefit from it! ” Carlo Charles Marie-Soleil L’Allier “ Diversity in my work “ [In my research] is like oxygen to the I am interested in the body. It is present in the resurgence of citizen theoretical frameworks initiatives that are that I use to inform my multiplying in Quebec research. Diversity is also (but also around the present in my methodological approach, ethical world) and that implement new sustainable issues, the choice of my participants, my analysis social practices that subscribe to the logic